22 articles in this issue
Editorial 10.1.
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Franca Anik Bellarsi, Judith Rauscher
What ecopoetics is and what it does, how it relates to but also exceeds ecopoetry, and the nature of its relationship to the more general poiesis (?making”) at work in the material universe remain open and thorny questions. ... see more
Harvey L. Hix
On the premise that sound ecological decision depends on sound ecological description, this essay takes the contrast between randomness and design as the provocation for a redescription of the human ecological situation. In ... see more
Susan Signe Morrison
To show the intellectual roots of environmental citizenship, this essay transverses literary and ecological paths by focusing on medieval pilgrimage poems. While design seems integral to the concept of pilgrimage—wayfaring f... see more
Bénédicte Meillon
Ecopoetics forms a human expression of the naturecultures that sustain us, enfolding us within an earth that is much more than a mere environment. In consequence, the ecopoet serves as a mediator between the multitudinous vo... see more
Tara Beaney
If our current environmental predicament, and recent catastrophes such as the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima in 2011, can be diagnosed as partly a crisis of the imagination, then radical action is needed. Ecopoetics can help ... see more
Melissa Fran Zeiger
The Desert Survival Series (2010, 2014) by Amy Sara Carroll, a set of poems that forms part of an activist project called the Transborder Immigrant Tool, departs from the methods of both radical political poetry and some ava... see more
Jessica Maufort
This article argues that renowned Maori/New Zealand writer Patricia Grace devises an ecopoetics of randomness and design in her novel Tu through the manifold image of the labyrinthine compost. The biological processes of the... see more
Clara Breteau
Résumé En nous appuyant sur une reconstitution de l’histoire de la notion de poïesis et notamment sur ses mobilisations dans des domaines extra-littéraires, nous dégageons dans cet article son potentiel pour être réinv... see more
Marianne Marroum
This paper deals with “Thirty-one Beautiful Green Trees”, a short story written in Arabic by Salwa Bakr, the Egyptian critic, novelist and author. The reading I propose is extracted from deep ecology, namely the ecological s... see more
Leticia Gómez, Azucena Castro
The contemporary fictional films Nosilatiaj. La belleza [Beauty] (dir. Daniela Seggiaro, 2012) and Los decentes [A Decent Woman] (dir. Lukas Valenta Rinner, 2016) explore the complex intra-action between the human and the non-huma... see more
Damiano Benvegnù
Editorial Creative Writing and Art.
Ophélie Queffurus
Creative art.
Judith Tucker, Harriet Tarlo
We have worked since 2013 on and with a contested coastal community on one of the U.K.'s last existing plotlands, the Humberston Fitties in North East Lincolnshire. Here, since between the wars, local people and visito... see more
Daniel Eltringham, David Walker Barker
This collaboration between the poet Daniel Eltringham and the artist David Walker Barker explores the Pennine reservoir landscapes and partially drowned communities of Langsett and Midhope, ten miles north-west of Sheffield.... see more
Frances Presley
These poems are from a forthcoming book based on the life of Ada Lovelace. They combine mathematical theory with landscape through innovative poetic form. I have chosen two themes-wave function and will o' the wi... see more
Robin Murray
Poemas.Resumen Poemas.
John Charles Ryan
This is a long poem, a sequence of 24 sonnets on trees. Resumen Éste es un poema largo, una secuencia de 24 sonetos sobre árboles.
Graham Huggan
Book review of Texts, Animals, Environments: Zoopoetics and Ecopoetics. Resumen Reseña de Texts, Animals, Environments: Zoopoetics and Ecopoetics.
Book Review of Rethinking Nature: Challenging Disciplinary Boundaries.Resumen Reseña de Rethinking Nature: Challenging Disciplinary Boundaries.
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